Nik Darlington started his career as a management consultant in London, specialising in higher education strategy (including tuition fees), media (monetising online content) and telecoms pricing. Since leaving consultancy he has written widely on politics, current affairs, history and sport for a number of online and print publications, as well as writing book and cultural reviews for The Spectator website. There is a book or two in him somewhere but he probably spends too much of his time playing cricket to find them anytime soon.